łuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream) ...

• Main Author: Purcell, Kaitlyn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2024
• Subjects: Research-Creation; Indigenous Studies; Turtle Island Literature; Hermeneutics; Dreamwork; Storyweaving; Dene Suline; Creative Non-Fiction; Memoir; Cut-up Writing; Grief; Dreams; Recovery; Literature > Canadian English; Literature > English; Native American Studies; Philosophy; FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion; Education > Art; Turtle Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/43050; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/118206

łuk’é náte (A Child Called Dream) is a work of research-creation that moves between autobiographical accounts of my childhood and my life in university over the last thirteen years. I reflect on the process and publication of my first book, ʔbédayine, as well as the grief of losing my sister Lorrie, the intergenerational traumas passed down from my mother, and the creative research practices I have embraced over all these years. Through my doctoral studies and the writing of this thesis, I found ways to heal myself and embrace the parts of my way of thinking and being that I had been ashamed of. My mind riddled with attention and trauma disorders. My mind which struggles to communicate verbally as well as I can write. My mind tangled by a lifetime living in fear as a result of intergenerational violence passed down by the residential and day school systems. Through my intuitive research-creation practices as an urban Dënë Sųłınë́ person, I write my childhood memoir while exploring my lineage of thought from ...